Del Webb Reviews

I was not happy with the way the my house was done. Painting was sloppy both on the inside and outside. Light fixtures were poorly done. Bathrooms walls are uneven and the fan sounds like a truck when turned on. On a windy day, the kitchen vent makes a flapping sound. Calls made were usually just lip service with no response to fix the problems

Don’t trust anything they tell you and check the process of building as often as possible. Their subcontractors are lackadaisical and exhibit very poor workmanship and concern about your new home. Quality is substandard for the prices you pay.

The appliances are not well-made. They have problems. The washer is defective, the plumbing is bad.

The lack of quality and quality control is non-existent resulting in multiple attempts to resolve the same issue. It is exhausting to say the least. There is also no accountability. Pulte blames the contractors and the contractors blame Pulte. Run, do not walk, to a community that does not use Pulte. This has and continues to be an exercise in futility. Forget about any relaxation while you own a Pulte home.

Cracked beams. Open roof. Lawn w rocks dead grass and dead plants.

Horrible communication with the field manager. Never responds in a timely matter or not at all. Workmanship is poor. I've called customer service several times and still nothing gets resolved.

Beware of the lack of quality in the home you are purchasing. Walls out of plum, countertops in bath areas out of plum due to walls mentioned. Floors not cleaned before move in. Poor paint finish on doors and trim. Cabinet supplier not standing behind a workmanship issue. The list goes on, but you can see the problems from this short list.

From sales meeting to final construction, a very painful experience

I have nothing good to say about Pulte homes. I paid almost half a million for my house and have been very disappointed in the quality of work. Nicks in laminate flooring, screw holes in the garage where they put up the garage door wrong but neglected to fix the holes. Sloppy finish work the caulking is bad throughout the whole house. The microwave was not installed correctly, the kitchen range is crooked and don’t even get me started on the staircase railing. When the come to fix something the usually make it worse. I have talked to home owners in Carolina Orchards and they to have had similar problems and some had worse. All Pulte is interested in is getting their money then slapping up a poorly built house. If someone asks me I would tell them (DO NOT BUY A PULTE BUILT HOME THEY PROMISE THE MOON AND YOU GET A VERY SLOPPILY BUILT HOME FOR YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY ... More

They care about closing the deal. They do not care about you, your home, or about honesty and integrity. Their employees are dishonest and insincere. The company is cheap and will always choose their profit over the quality of the product they deliver to you. Really lackluster customer service by corporate employees who are experts at complaint deflection, redirection and excuse making.

Our poor quality of workmanship was created by having 5 different field managers exchange responsibility throughout the build of our home. POOR management system. OUR HOME IS FULL OF ITEMS NEEDING RREPAIRED AND THEY ARE CHOOSING TO NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE MISTAKES such as cracked window, unsmooth granite countertops with sharp edges.. Bowed walls...porch and patio full of birdbaths and craters as well as saw cuts in the edges of our bullnosed cement work...The list Goes On.. underaged kids working on our flooring and tiles.. Shall I continue? This ones gonna hit thecourtroom. Will not recommend Pulte or Del Webb to anyone. ... More

Fit and finish is sub par. Non responsive to handling issues. Don’t close if everything isn’t done.

we have been in the house for apprx, six weeks and the punch list at walk thru before closing still have not been addressed, the paint job on new trim makes trim look like its thirty years old, full of caulk, paint drips etc.doors are rough{painted with a roller}? I can not express the diapointment, and most neighbors agree

At our initial meeting with our field manager (Andy S.) in August 2020, he assured us that he would provide weekly updates as our house was being built. We received "weekly" updates on 9/4, 9/18, and 12/18/2020. We would have to ask questions several times before receiving any response. We would often receive no response at all. When we would raise issues, Andy would often respond "I'll take care of it" but not follow-up and actually do anything. We ordered Pulte's kitchen appliance package and upgraded the cooktop from gas to electric. We had no appliances at all until about a week before closing, and when they were finally delivered, they "installed" a gas cooktop even though there was no gas supply because we had upgraded to electric. The electric cooktop was finally installed about a week after closing. There were still several other open issues at closing, but we had to close anyway because we had so many other deliveries scheduled around our closing date. All of the appliances that we had ordered ourselves (not from Pulte) arrived as promised the day after closing. We were told that we had to work through our field manager on any issues for 30 days after closing. We continued to send emails and texts about our ongoing issues for those 30 days with absolutely no response from Andy S. We are now working with the Pulte warranty people, and still waiting for results. I have bought several homes over the years and never had an experience as bad as working with Pulte. ... More

Pulte is only in it for the profit. Build quality very poor... They'll tell you one thing and do another.

I have been in our home 6 weeks, all of the whirlpool appliance do not work. Have to call Whirlpool directly, get a service technician out here - after 5 days he comes out and tells me he has to order parts that take 4 to 6 weeks. I paid over $600K for this home - all appliances should work. I would like a call from a Pulte Manager to discuss this problem

Not a good quality and unqualified builder

Many people buy here for the Sun City name and life style. Del Webb is stamping out homes and only concerned in profit. The finish work is extremely poor. Ironically, the options we paid for were among the worst! The construction supervisor is in a bad spot as they can't hire or fire workers that don't have a clue to what they are doing. I can't even begin to state all of the problems. We quickly refused to let ANYONE of them inside our home to "fix' or 'go over' anything. Our sales person was misleading and uninformed. The mistakes caused the Title Co. and Mortgage people a lot of grief. We were not sure of our numbers on closing day. We lived out of state and feel we were taken advantage of from sales, construction, and Del Webb. ... More

The quality is very poor, the work is like your getting a starter house, as cheap as you can build. This builder does not take pride in building home, issues after issues. I had mold on wood and this builder would not replace the wood, just cover the wood up. Just lots of cheap materials in house.

Poor trim materials, lousy paint, lousy finish work (use caulk to try & cover up poor craftmanship). Every time they fixed 2 things, they damaged/broke one other thing. They had to install our wood floors 3 times. I (buyer) was the one to find the errors and installation issues with the floors. Pulte would have sold it to me in poor condition if I had not found all the issues. They do not inspect their contractors' work, and hope that caulk, poor lighting, and quick walk-throughs will get them to the closing process. Their entire management team needs to adopt an old management philosophy - "INSPECT what you EXPECT". My spouse said it best:, " I feel like I purchased an old, used house - not a new house, We will have to repair, replace, re-paint so many things - we should have purchased a used house in better condition". An example: after less than 2 months in the house, the finish on the bathroom sink stoppers is already wearing off (and these were their UPGRADED products). I also spent about 2 weeks sanding and re=painting to cover drips, runs & areas where the paint did not even cover the walls. I knew Pulte's reputation was bad, but had heard they had improved.... NO WAY, not after my experience! ... More

From almost the beginning where provided misinformation and found the people we worked with to be rigid and on accommodating beyond reason.

I had bad experience since day one

We have experienced problem after problem and Pulte ignores us and is unresponsive.

My salesperson should have told me I needed a RIGHT hand garage to maximize windows on the east side of our house knowing full well our model (Martin Ray) has only 1 1/2 windows on the garage side. She told us we needed a LEFT hand garage. Our house is SO DARK from lack of windows on the east side. We currently are repainting the entire interior of our house at our expense trying to brighten our living space. Also the design person did not steer me to lighter colors after I told her too that I wanted maximum light. The time allocated for the design center choices is inexcusably short; especially when we had to fly in from another state. Del Webb salespeople should have been much more helpful. We were just a number to be processed as quickly as possible. Our contractor supervisor was removed halfway through the building process, unfortunately. He kept us abreast of the build of our house. We were sorry to find he was gone!! The quality of the workmanship on our house was extremely poor. No quality control!! We had a list of 16-18 major items that needed correction. Over a two month period they were finally corrected. These homes at Frisco Lakes are expensive for the square footage with substandard workmanship. So disappointing to see the walls painted with the wall plates installed as we had to remove and clean. Too many issues to mention in this forum. We moved here 4 months ago from a 55+ community where the quality of workmanship was excellent and home prices were lower. I suspect you will not publish this review. ... More

Lack of flexibility in changes is a problem. Most new owners spend the first month after move in redoing the interior of the house, discarding things Pulte put in and spending much money on replacements. Work crews show no pride in their workmanship. Many trades do substandard work which has to be redone three times to get it right. Don't expect the contractors to know what they are doing from the guys who pour the slabs to completion. Concrete guys will miss walk in showers, placement of patio door frames, fireplace foundations and other supports. Framers seldom cut a board the correct length...usually about an inch short and then use 15 nails to span the gap. HVAC guys put duct work in, the next day the insulation guys cut all the duct support straps. Three weeks later the HVAC guys come back in and re-straps the ductwork in a hurried and substandard way. Meanwhile, the worksite looks like a dump with debris blowing all over the neighborhood. Not one tradesman leaves the the worksite clean. Not only is it making the neighbor messy, debris is blowing into the desert and White Tank Mountain Regional Park. ... More